Oliver Cowdery described Joseph using the Urim and Thummim during the BOM translation.

Date
Feb 1835
Type
Letter
Source
Oliver Cowdery
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Oliver Cowdery, “Letter IV,” Messenger and Advocate 1 (February 1835): 80

Scribe/Publisher
Messenger and Advocate
People
Joseph Smith, Jr., Oliver Cowdery
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

[The messenger] said this history was written and deposited not far from that place, and that it was our brother’s privilege, if obedient to the commandments of the Lord, to obtain, and translate the same by the means of the Urim and Thummim, which were deposited for that purpose with the record.

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